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		dustintrex on Sept 26, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Arts and Culture: Indonesian Spices The history of Indonesian spices is written in blood. The island of Run, once the only place in the world where nutmeg grew, was forcibly depopulated by the Dutch, massacring some 10,000 people in the process: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_conquest_of_the_Banda_Is...

packetslave on Sept 26, 2021 [–]

Which is covered on the site under "Banda Islands : Where The Story Began"

dustintrex on Sept 26, 2021 | [–]

Ooh, good find, here's the link: https://artsandculture.google.com/story/QAVxVli-R3XwZQ

The nutmeg story doesn't cover or link to this though.

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